- She is a creative writing professor at the Virginia Polytechnic University at Blacksburg, Virginia. (July 2007)
- Friends with Rosa Parks.
- An honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 161-171. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- On April 17, 2007, delivered a profoundly moving poem entitled "We are Virginia Tech" at the Convocation ceremony commemorating the massacre on the Virginia Tech campus just one day earlier.
- Mother of Thomas Giovanni.
- Grandmother of Kai Giovanni.
- Has one sister.
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